How many would do the 'right thing' and attend school? Why, in fact, do we require school attendance? Don't we trust children, and their parents, to make the prudent choice?

We actually eat less than our ancestors, despite the fact that we eat more than we should. Since we expend so much less energy than prior generations, we need fewer calories. And when you take in fewer calories, you usually take in fewer nutrients. We also eat more high-calorie foods with poor nutritional value, like chips, and fewer nutrient-rich foods, like fruits and vegetables.

Dark chocolate may be conferring vascular benefits via several pathways.

The supply of folklore remedies for hangover is virtually limitless. The best way to contend with hangover is not to get one, by practicing abstinence or moderation.

Epidemic obesity is unquestionably a health crisis in the United States, and for that matter, in much of the world. But it is a crisis in slow motion, one that has crept up on us over years, and even decades.

Obesity is arguably the gravest public health threat in the United States today.